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LOCAL REPORTING: The Hamburg Sun’s Luke Hammill published a fine story last Friday, July 27, in which Boston Highway Superintendent Robert J. Telaak responded to a scathing audit by Erie County Comptroller Stefan Mychajliw, in which Mychajliw claimed $1.5 million of the town’s equipment was missing, including about $1.1 million in highway department equipment. Telaak showed Hammill that most of the equipment listed as missing in Mychajliw’s audit was, in fact, parked in the highway department’s garage, where it belongs. (“If it’s missing, then I don’t know what I’m plowing the roads with,” said Telaak’s brother Ken, a department employee, of a snowplow that the audit listed as unaccounted for.) Other allegedly missing items had been sold or traded in, the superintendent told the Sun, transactions made with the approval of the town board and recorded in the board’s minutes, which Mychajliw’s auditors apparently did not consult before issuing the report. Telaak told Hammill that Mychajliw’s auditors never came to ask him about the equipment’s whereabouts. He said they never spoke to him at all. “If they would have, we could have told them where it was,” said Telaak, who, like Mychajliw, is a Republican. “He’s the one who wanted to make this [a] big story, only because he wants to run against Mr. [Mark] Poloncarz,” Telaak told Hammill. “He can’t even be comptroller—talk about county executive.” Teals added that if Mychaliw does run against Erie County Executive Mark Poloncarz in 2019, he’ll send a donation to Poloncarz. Score one for local journalism—nice job, Luke. Now why didn’t the Buffalo News, which owns the Hamburg Sun, re-publish that story? The only story on the News’s website is a July 5 account of Mychajliw’s press conference rolling out the audit, written by a summer intern, and presenting the audit’s findings as fact. BROWN TALKS BUT PRIDGEN LISTENS: Instead of holding a unilateral press conference from the steps of City Hall to address the recent gun violence on Grape Street, as Mayor Byron Brown did, Masten District Councilman Darius Pridgen actually invited the community to speak on the tragic incidents that claimed the lives of a grandmother and her grandson. Pridgen got to hear firsthand about the community’s lack of trust in the Buffalo Police Department’s ability to protect them should they provide useful information to an investigation, and he got to hear people describe how poor community relations with the Buffalo police spill over into bloodshed and an abysmal homicide clearance rate. Speaking of community relations, brand new commissioner Byron Lockwood was supposed to make that the feather in his cap, but we’ve heard almost nothing from him or his initiative to make every officer in the city a “community police officer” besides interview soundbites. He wasn’t even present for Brown’s presser. Pridgen is an excellent listener, and that’s the first step. Let’s hope he takes the next 10 steps to help get this right.
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DOWNS: TRANSPORTATION FUNDING PRIORITIES: The Buffalo News reported over the weekend that “Questions cloud future of planned DL&W bridges to KeyBank Center” due to cost overruns and structural issues at the train terminal. We have a simple solution: Don’t build a fucking pedestrian bridge. It would be far cheaper and saner to close South Park Avenue between Perry and Illinois Streets during game days. I know we just lit $750 million on fire for the Tesla factory, so dropping $45 million on a public transit infrastructure project seems kinda fun. But take a step back and realize that those dollars would be better invested in increasing accessibility, ridership, and infrastructure getting people to places of work rather than places of play. ARTS COVERAGE IN THE DAILY PAPER: On his Facebook page on Monday, former Buffalo News cultural reporter Colin Dabkowski—recently shuffled out of that job and made digital content editor—posted a link to a story in the News about Torn Space Theater’s ambitious Response Festival, the bulk of which takes place at Silo City in the middle of August. (You can read all about it in next week’s issue of The Public.) “From the look of this shared link, you might think this is an article by an arts journalist about Torn Space Theater,” Dabkowski wrote. “It’s not. Instead, it is deceptive ‘Sponsored Content,’ which is now appearing in the place of what used to be journalism. This is a negative development.” Indeed it is, which takes nothing away from Torn Space, which is simply using the means at its disposal to publicize an exciting project. Dabkowski’s objection (and ours) is that the News is now selling coverage of the arts rather than providing it as part of its editorial content. That says something about the paper’s regard for coverage of the arts, and the cutlural community generally, and it bodes poorly for artists and institutions that cannot afford paid placements. Indeed, Torn Space’s director, Dan Shanahan, commented on Dabkowski’s post that he agreed that this was a negative development, and that the depletion of the News’s cultural coverage had in fact compelled the company to purchase coverage because it could not be assured the festival would receive attention from the News otherwise.
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THE YEAR OF THE WOMAN BY CATHLEEN DRAPER
CARIMA EL-BEHAIRY AND EVERY WOMAN RUNNING FOR ELECTION THIS YEAR ARE “JUST SICK OF IT” IN 1992, 24 women were elected to the US
House of Representatives, setting a record for the largest number of women to be sent to the House in an election, earning 1992 the moniker the “Year of the Woman.”
The 2018 election is shaping up to be the new “Year of the Woman.” A record-breaking 575 women are running for governor, House, or Senate across the country; many more are running for state and local offices. Some are propelled by the #MeToo movement and attacks on human rights by the Trump administration. Others are frustrated by the fact that men are making decisions and creating policies that directly affect women in their daily lives. Carima El-Behairy, a Democrat seeking to challenge incumbent Republican Chris Jacobs for the 60th District seat in the New York State Senate, is one of the women hoping to make an improvement. “We’re just sick of it,” El-Behairy said. “We are fighting the same battles our mothers fought, our grandmothers fought. We’re talking about the same things. We are 51 percent of the population, and we should represent, in gender, our population.” El-Behairy, a business strategies consultant, is a first-time candidate, but she’s used to being the new girl on the scene. Born in Grand Island, El-Behairy went to school around the world before settling in the city of Buffalo. “Every couple years, I was the new kid in school,” El-Behairy said. “I didn’t look like anybody else in my school. And then you have the name.” El-Behairy’s mother is from Ohio, and her father was from Egypt. She never felt like she truly belonged in either world. In America, she was “that girl with the funny name.” And in Egypt, she was “the girl with the American mother,” she said. In fourth grade, her family traveled to Saudi Arabia for her father’s job as a teacher. She was homeschooled, but returned to Grand Island for fifth grade, and she was “the girls who came back.” The next year, she was “the new girl” in middle school. Then, she attended another foreign school for seventh grade. Between
eighth grade and college, she was “the girl who came back” or “the new girl” six more times. El-Behairy co-founded and served as the managing partner of P22 type foundry until last year. She’s also a founding trustee of the Western New York Book Arts Collaborative, the now-closed Oracle Charter School, and the Western New York Charter School Coalition. She’s currently the treasurer for Planned Parenthood of Central and Western New York. Previously, she served as board chair and vicechair for Planned Parenthood’s regional chapters. She also holds the board treasurer position for the Association Typographique Internationale. El-Behairy’s platform is built around women. Her campaign focuses on quality education and healthcare access and affordability, as well as election reform and historic preservation with development. “We’re underrepresented, underserved, and overregulated as women,” she said. Raised by two educators, El-Behairy aims to create universal pre-K. Parents are left to their own devices with pre-K because it isn’t mandatory, and programs are costly and inconsistent in quality. The typical options are a high-quality, private preschool, a neighborhood preschool, a nanny, or a family member. If parents choose to send their child to a private preschool, it costs a small fortune. Childcare for a four-year-old in New York costs $11,700 annually on average. Care for an infant and a four-year-old? That costs an average of $25,844, or 38.7 percent of a typical New York family’s income. And, for the 79.7 percent of New York families who cannot afford private care, other options might not be sufficient in preparing children for kindergarten. Some kids enter school not knowing their own name or how to spell it because they’ve been called nickname and don’t know their letters. Others have had a virtual babysitter experience by watching TV all day. “You’re expecting kids like that to succeed when they hit preschool,” El-Behairy said. “They don’t have the social skills, they don’t have the interaction skills, and they don’t have the academic skills. How do you address that? Get them to school earlier. Universal pre-K is one of those great equalizers.” El-Behairy envisions a public system that starts at the age of three, which would benefit mothers, too. “Imagine what you could do if you could send your child to preschool at the age of
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three and actually work full-time,” she said. “We think about stuff like that as a woman. But oh my god, we’re represented by men in the senate who have no clue.” Another thing the men running the state have no clue about is women’s health.
In 1916, Jeanette Rankin became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Not long after, Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first female US senator.
“Women’s health is different than men’s health,” El-Behairy said with a laugh. “If men had children, imagine what places we’d be going.”
One hundred years later, Hillary Clinton became the first woman to be nominated for president by a major political party.
For El-Behairy, it’s about a woman’s right to choose. She wants to remove abortion from the penal code and make it an aspect of healthcare. And access is what it’s all about.
The US ranks 102nd in the world for women’s representation in government. That represents a regression from an already bad place: Two decades ago, the US ranked 43rd.
“It’s access to free birth control; it’s access to healthcare, it’s access to education—making your own choices and being able to have those choices,” El-Behairy said.
Twenty-three percent of US senators are women, and just 84 of 435, or 19.3 percent, of US representatives are women. Twenty-one states have never had a female senator; five have never had a female representative. And 22 states have never had a female governor. according to the Washington Post.
The cost of healthcare prevents that access. As a business owner, El-Behairy worked to find plans and rates that would benefit her employees and not destroy their budgets. She looks at her mother, 81, who is in great health thanks to the high-quality insurance teachers have. But, ElBehairy knows that’s not the case for everyone.
For every single woman in political office, there are three men. Only six states have a female governor, two of which were appointed. And just 25.4 percent of state legislators are women in 2018.
El-Behairy called the cost of healthcare “a war” against the poor and women. She knows low costs will increase the number of people covered, and vice versa.
New York is no different. No woman has ever held the position of governor. Women comprise 28.6 percent of state legislative seats, with only 15 women in the Senate and 45 women in the Assembly.
“I’m not in it for me; I’m in it for you,” she said. “I’m not in it because I get to put senator next to my name. I’ve never run for public office before. ”You have to have new blood otherwise you’re just gonna swim in the same pool. You keep repeating the same problems and mistakes.” THE PUBLIC / AUGUST 1 - 7, 2018 / DAILYPUBLIC.COM
New York has sent 28 women to Congress, second only to California, where 41 women have been elected to Congress. Vermont has never even elected a woman for a Congressional office.
“Medicare pays so well. so nobody goes to the doctor until they’re 65,” she said. “If you were able to offer health insurance for $300 a month, everybody would have it. But you’re charging $1,000 a month, so nobody has it.”
El-Behairy also knows women are the future of government. As a woman, she sees the necessity of equal representation and understands the value of her unique viewpoint, negotiation, and communication skills, and savvy for business and nonprofit efforts.
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Currently, 32 New York women are running for the House, and only eight are incumbents. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a democratic socialist, educator, and activist, defeated incumbent and Democratic Caucus Chair Joe Crowley in a stunning primary upset, proving a femalepowered blue wave is possible in the fall. Twenty-nine women have filed to run for state Senate, and 17 more have filed to run for the Assembly. The gubernatorial race is dominated by women, too: Incumbent Andrew Cuomo faces a primary challenge by Democrat Cynthia Nixon,
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asked, or in El-Behairy’s case, “talked into it a little bit.” And men are 15 percent more likely to be recruited.
Local attorney and former advisor to Hillary Clinton and Governor Cuomo Leecia Eve is just one of several women running for attorney general.
“I FIGURED, WHAT COULD I LOSE?”
But, even with the wave of women running for office in 2018, equal representation is still out of reach. Currently, there are 1,977 women in governorships, Congress, and state legislatures. In order to achieve equal representation, 2,006 more women must run and win. El-Behairy said there are various reasons women aren’t being elected. Mostly, she says, it’s because they don’t run. “We have to step up, and women don’t run for many reasons,” El-Behairy said. “One of them is family, the other is they don’t want to get messy.” She said the nastiness deters women. Women are criticized beyond their policies, unlike men. Critics take shots at their appearance, their behavior, their families, and their decision to run while balancing a life outside of politics. The expectations women face in a construct of traditional gender roles directly juxtaposes a career in politics. “We are expected as women to have children, raise the children, work full-time, manage the household, get dinner on the table. Don’t forget you have to do the laundry and keep the house clean,” El-Behairy said. “Every day. And don’t forget we have to carry the children, too.”
El-Behairy was herself recruited for the state Senate race. The Baker Project, an organization that recruits, trains and funds pro-choice Democratic women candidates in New York, asked her to run following a training for women candidates they hosted in Albany, where they realized Western New York had little to no female representation. “Having support like that is invaluable,” ElBehairy said. “If I didn’t have that support, I wouldn’t be running. The fact that people believe in me and they felt that my track record with doing versus saying I’m gonna do it worked.” She had felt the need to run for office before, but the timing wasn’t right for her. She had a flourishing business and was involved with community-focused nonprofits. She was busy raising her two sons to be responsible males and world citizens focused on equality. Now, with her two sons in college and fresh from a buy-out of her company, El-Behairy said the timing is finally right. If she hadn’t been asked to run for state Senate this year, she would’ve run for Buffalo Common Council next year, especially since there are no women on the Common Council. “I figured, what could I lose,” she said. “Bad news is I could actually win, and how much bad news would that be for everybody else?”
And, women are more likely to doubt their qualifications for office. According to an American University study, college-age men who doubted their qualifications for political office were 50 percent more likely than women who felt similarly to consider running anyway.
As a strategic business consultant, El-Behairy looks at every option before she makes a decision. She feels the same tactics should be applied to politics. Instead of acting on gut feelings and personal attitudes, El-Behairy believes in backing every decision up with research.
Women are also less likely to run without being
But, even her most well-researched decisions are
second-guessed by others, which she sees as a universal experience for women. “What is taken as gospel for a man is questioned as a woman,” El-Behairy said. “If I make a decision, I’m asked two or three times, ‘You sure?’ Where if I were a man, they would be, like, ‘Okay, no problem, we’ll take care of it.’ And, I’ve found that in business, as well. I have been asked for things they never would have asked my partner.” “All of these things in my life tell me I need to run,” she said. “I have a totally different perspective than someone who has a name on the hospital downtown. I budget; I struggle. I understand what it takes to get a job. I understand what it takes to interview for a job.” Before the critics jump on it, El-Behairy knows she’s not a politician or a trained public speaker. She under-promises and over-delivers, never making a promise if she can’t follow through— the opposite of what’s happening in maledominated Albany right now. “They’re forgiven for it,” El-Behairy said. “You need to be held to the same standard. And [women] are held to a higher standard. We are held to a higher standard in school. We are held to a higher standard physically. We are held to a higher standard every time we open our mouths.” El-Behairy succinctly summarizes her focus if she were to win the election: concentrate on what is working and make it better, and get rid of what doesn’t work. She centered her platform on women and protecting what’s important: civil liberties, healthcare, and those who can’t protect themselves. “My candidacy is about mothering everybody,” El-Behairy said. “And that’s what sets me apart from probably any other candidate right now that’s running. Women look at things differently, we really do. We look at what impacts our household, what impacts our families. We look at P what impacts our neighbors.”
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THE ATTRACTION OF PUTIN BY MICHAEL I. NIMAN
IT’S ALL ABOUT KLEPTOCRACY THIS STORY BRIEFLY begins with the 1917
communist revolution in Russia. The oligarchy was destroyed and private property nationalized. After that, communism lived on in name only, but the state capitalist model the USSR adopted prevented any sizable accumulation of private property for more than 70 years. Yes, state bureaucrats like Vladimir Putin enjoyed luxurious perks, and Russians owned things like cars and furniture, but the state maintained monopoly ownership of all significant wealth. Yet today, the media often pairs “Russian” with “oligarch,” with news memes about Russian oligarchs being quite common. How did these oligarchs come into being? This is the attraction of Putin—the real electricity lighting up Donald Trump’s infatuation with the Russian leader. Putin, and the cadre of Russian billionaires who orbit him, now comprise a new Russian oligarchy, controlling almost all of the wealth in an otherwise poor, semi-developed country. Over the past three decades since the collapse of the Soviet Union, they’ve proven themselves to be prolific and conspicuous consumers, owning property and yachts stationed around the globe. Russian oligarchs. But what makes these oligarchs special in the Trump world is how they got their wealth. Like Putin, almost all of them, or their parents, began life as high-level “communist” bureaucrats. Civil servants. During the Soviet-era, they luxuriated on the public dime—which they were charged with managing. When the Soviet Union collapsed, they metaphorically had the keys to the safe. When the Soviet system ended in 1991 and Russia quickly moved from a state-owned economy with almost no private property to a Wild East free-market free-for-all, these soonto-be billionaires still controlled the state-owned resources of the new Russian Federation. Over the course of the next decade, this state wealth moved from being owned by the Russian people to being owned by the bureaucrats charged with protecting the people’s wealth. See the beauty here? The mechanics of how this wealth was looted provide a complex backstory and warnings on how to prevent such unprecedented corruption in other countries, but the end result is pretty simple. The government bureaucrats, in privatizing their nation’s vast wealth, transfered it to their own pockets. Vladimir Putin went from being a government servant to one of the richest (some argue the richest) persons on the planet. Given Donald Trump’s fledgling kleptocratic operation, the attraction is clear. Despite rhetoric about capitalism, the United States has, for the last century, existed as a hybrid economy with great concentration of private wealth co-existing with a large socialist sector covering everything from military and police services to roads, parks, mail, and education. During this time Republicans have been making 6
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moves on the United States’s public wealth, going after the public sectors with the most wealth and economic activity. Hence we’ve seen Republican moves to privatize education, public lands, prisons, and even the military, while breaking from the rest of the developed world and maintaining a healthcare system dominated by private control. Trump and his Republican enablers are doing their best to move public wealth to the private sector, putting people like Betsy DeVos, a billionaire heavily invested in the beleaguered for-profit college sector and the student debt collection industry, in charge of the federal agency that regulates for-profit colleges. Such well documented conflicts are more the norm than the aberration in Trump’s Billionaires’ Cabinet. While news cycles are dominated by presidential doomsday tweets and the slowmoving Russian investigation, Trump cronies are moving on public assets. This is not Russia, however. Our longstanding quest for democracy and government transparency is core to our culture, as are First Amendment protections of a free press. Russia never had any longstanding relationships with a free and active democratic civil society. They did, however, have a somewhat vibrant free press for a spell after the fall of the Soviet Union. And that press criticized Putin, much as segments of the American press have risen to keep the Trump oligarchs in check. As the oligarchy rose in Russia, however, the oligarchs simply silenced the press buy buying it up—a trend that we’re seeing in this country as well. Still, it won’t be nearly as easy for Trump and his mob to loot the nation’s public wealth as it was for the Russian bureaucrats-turned-oligarchs, but they’re sure as hell trying. The Trump family wealth stems originally from his grandfather’s success as a pimp in the Yukon, and his father’s success in leveraging that wealth into a real estate empire. During his career in business, however, Donald Trump struggled with debt and multiple bankruptcies, often failing to pay the contractors his businesses relied upon. Fortune Magazine estimated that he’d be over four times richer if he had just blindly invested across the board in stock index funds rather than try to run a business. This is the attraction of Putin. The Trump family road to riches was always a struggle— getting their hands dirty, first in prostitution, then as questionable landlords running afoul of the law, and finally with Donald Trump’s dangerous relationship with debt and his trail of bankruptcies. After intergenerational business dealings, his family owns just a fraction of the wealth that Vladimir Putin commands, even though Putin was born poor to a factory worker and a navy draftee. For an aspiring kleptocrat like Trump, Putin is the ultimate role model. Dr. Michael I. Niman is a professor of journalism and media studies at Buffalo State College. His previous columns are archived at mediastudy.com and are P available globally through syndication.
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Kate LoConti as Beatrice and Todd Benzin as Benedick in Much Ado About Nothing at Shakespeare in Delaware Park.
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PLAYING NOW: AS YOU LIKE IT: Chautauqua Theater Company’s traveling production plays at Southern Tier Brewery on August 1, and at Lakeside Park in Mayville on August 2. For more information: 357-6250, chq.org. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING: “Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more / Men were deceivers ever,- / One foot in sea and one on shore, /To one thing constant never.” Frankly, we prefer comedies with a little crossdressing. But with lines like that? Don’t miss it. At Shakespeare in Delaware Park through August 19, 856-4533, shakespeareindelawarepark.org. MURDER FOR TWO: A two-handed musical murder mystery comedy: One actor plays the investigator, the other plays all the suspects. Both play piano, sing, and dance. Through August 12 at MusicalFare Theatre, in residence at Daemen College, 4380 Main Street, Amherst, 839-8540, musicalfare.com. SILENCE! THE MUSICAL: A campy stage adaptation of Silence of the Lambs, starring (among others) the inimitable Jimmy Janowski as Hannibal Lecter, Maria Droz as Clarice Starling, and Michael Seitz as the transvestite serial killer Buffalo Bill. Additional performances added, August 4 & 5, at Buffalo United Artists at Alleyway Theater, 1 Curtain Up Alley, 886-9239, buffalobua.org.
ONGOING: COMEDYSPORTZ: Improvisational comedy every Friday and Saturday, 7:30pm at CSz Buffalo, 4476 Main Street, Amherst, 3938669, cszbuffalo.com. CSz AFER HOURS: Late(ish) comedy for the 18+ crowd every Saturday, 9:30pm at CSz Buffalo, 4476 Main Street, Amherst, 3938669, cszbuffalo.com.
THE MAGICIAN’S NEPHEW: The world premiere of an adaptation of what is either the first or the sixth (depending on what edition you have) of C. S. Lewis’s The Narnia Chronicles. MYTHOS: A TRILOGY: GODS. HEROES. MEN: Three plays, 1,000 years of Greek mythology, digested by the ingenious British comedian Stephen Fry. It’s a world premiere, and you can see just one, just two, or all three. OF MARRIAGE AND MEN: Two shorts by Shaw on the subject of marriage: How He Lied to Her Husband and The Man of Destiny. O’FLAHERTY, V.C.: The Irish and World War I—it’s complicated. A lunch hour one-act. THE ORCHARD (AFTER CHEKHOV): Imagine The Cherry Orchard re-cast with a Punjabi Sikh family who are trying to protect their orchard in the Okanagan Valley. STAGE KISS: Exes in “real” life are cast as lovers on stage in the comedy by Sarah Ruhl. At the Shaw Festival, 10 Queen’s Parade, Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, 1-800-511-7429, shawfest.com.
AT THE STRATFORD FESTIVAL: BRONTE: THE WORLD WITHOUT: ”Three sisters live in poverty with their ailing father and dissolute, dying brother, jealously guarding the secrets of their disappointed hearts.” THE COMEDY OF ERRORS: Slapstick, mistaken identity, ribald puns, in one of Shakespeare’s first comedies. CORIOLANUS: One of Shakespeare’s later, grimmer tragedies.
AN IDEAL HUSBAND: Oscar Wilde’s comedy about politics and blackmail.
LONG DAY’S JOURNEY INTO NIGHT: Really just about the opposite, in every imaginable way, of the production above. Eugene O’Neill at the absolute top of his game dramatizing the bottom. THE MUSIC MAN: And the pendulum (with a capital “P” and that rhymes with…) swings again. Meredith Willson’s classic musical. THE ROCKY HORROR SHOW: Dan Chameroy
AT THE SHAW FESTIVAL: THE BARONESS AND THE PIG: A Pygmalionlike tale, but with a baroness instead of a patronizing professor. Opens June 7. GRAND HOTEL: Tony-award-winning musical based on the 1932 film based on the 1929 novel, set in 1920s Berlin.
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fills Frank-N-Furter’s fishnets. Drinks before, during, after the show.
THE TEMPEST: Ban, ban, Ca-caliban has a new master.
TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD: Christopher Sergel’s stage adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel. At the Stratford Festival, 55 Queen St., Stratford, P ON 1-800-567-1600, stratfordfestival.ca.
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ART REVIEW men are generally recognized as humans—persons, individuals— women are not, but are more likely considered somehow product (either given how the lifeblood of the internet is commerce—selling product—and so much of the product selling is targeted toward women, or women themselves as product, related to traditional dominant social and economic status male gender objectification/ depersonalization of women). On the basis of which findings she draws the inference that, come armageddon showdown, when the AI systems then taking control proceed—like any new tyranny regime—to suppress and subjugate and if need be eliminate the previous power group— namely humans—it is specifically men they will target (the group identified as human by the recognition software). Not women. Women—because not recognized or not readily recognized as human by the software—may slip through the dragnet. And with their supposed—and conceivable, despite the scant evidence for it—secret tradition of communiqué—or even without it—be able to mount a counter-offensive.
#D8E0EA: POST-CYBERFEMINIST DATUM BY JACK FORAN
YVETTE GRANATA’S FEMINIST FUTURISM AT SQUEAKY WHEEL SO, HOW DO you figure the cyber-race is going? Any bets on who’s
going to win in the end? Though no question about who’s winning at the moment. Not good guys. The current exhibit at Squeaky Wheel by artist/theorist Yvette Granata is a kind of disquisition in cyber technology about one possible outcome, described as post-cyberfeminism. Cyberfeminism indicating basically a feminist—any feminist really—approach to matters related to the internet and artificial intelligence. Post indicating basically after the armageddon showdown, when the internet and AI will have taken over everything—or just about— including what was formerly human domain. But when—in a supremely ironic twist—women—who were systematically objectified and depersonalized in the immediately pre-post era— that is to say, right now, by the current internet and AI apparatus, and bad guys in control—in the post-armageddon era may be in a more favorable condition. Basically by dint of a supposed femalespecific clandestine tradition of information communiqué and related secret body of data—code, intelligence, what have you—in
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FF = FIRST FRIDAY FF Albright-Knox Art Gallery (1285 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 882-8700, albrightknox.org): Robert Indiana: A Sculpture Retrospective, Jun 16-Sep 23. Picturing Niagara, paintings by Stephen Hannock, on view through Sep 30. Tue-Sun 10am-5pm, open late First Fridays (free) until 10pm. Anna Kaplan Contemporary (1250 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 604-6183, annakaplancontemporary.art): Guaranteed Painkiller, drawings and sculpture by Michael Beitz. On view through Aug 4. Sat 12-4 or by appointment. Art 247 (247 Market Street, Lockport, NY 14094, theart247.com): Wed-Sun, 10am-5pm. Art Dialogue Gallery (5 Linwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14209 wnyag.com): Marie Hassett, On the Edge, fiber collage works. On view through Aug 31. Tue-Fri 11am5pm, Sat 11am-3pm. Artists Group Gallery (Western New York Artists Group) (1 Linwood Ave, Buffalo, NY 14209, 716-885-2251, wnyag.com): Trilogies XXIX: George Gilham (oil paintings), Marie Prince (acrylic paintings), Henry Schmidt (sculpture). On view through Aug 17. TueFri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am-3pm.
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operation and effect arguably from time immemorial (since way before the internet and AI anyway, and instead of bad guys in control, probably more accurate to say simply guys in control). Evidence for the existence and/or significance of the clandestine transmission and related corpus of data gets a little problematic. A little shaky. References to female production libri di segreti— basically diaries, it sounds like—in early modern Italy, and the case of Caterina Sforza, described in an essay in the accompanying flyer as “the progenetrix of the Medici family and one of the women who defined the burgeoning scientific culture of the Italian Renaissance,” who dabbled with alchemy and in her notebooks recorded “recipes for poisons distilled from scorpion venom as well as instructions for concealing written text with slowly disappearing ‘invisible’ ink.” Also passing reference—as if by way of evidence— to conspiracy mystery bestseller The Da Vinci Code work of fiction posing as fact, and largely taken as fact by readers, it would seem. Whereas evidence in the matter of internet objectification/ depersonalization of women much more solid. Via the artist’s own findings—if I understand what is going on here in even the most elementary way, which is a valid question—regarding prevailing internet machine vision software incorporating recognition categories able to—theoretically at least—distinguish humans from robots and such like computer models. She found that while
FF Betty’s Restaurant (370 Virginia Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 362-0633, bettysbuffalo.com): -Thu, 8am-9pm, Fri 8am-10pm, Sat 9am10pm, Sun 9am-2pm. Benjaman Gallery (419 Elmwood Avenue Buffalo, NY 14222, thebenjamangallery.com): Works from the collection. Thu-Sat 11am-5pm. Big Orbit (30d Essex Street, Buffalo, NY 14222, cepagallery.org/about-big-orbit): Blue Plate Gallery (69 Keil Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120): Jan Dylewski: In This Context. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 8334450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Lux, the work of Muhammad Z. Zaman & Interstitial Castings by D.C.-based artist Liz Lessner. TueFri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF BOX Gallery (Buffalo Niagara Hostel, 667 Main St, Buffalo, NY 14203): Under The Influence, an installation by MJ Myers. Every day 4-10pm. Buffalo Arts Studio (Tri Main Building 5th Floor, 2495 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14214, 833-4450, buffaloartsstudio.org): Connections exhibit featuring Lux by Muhammad Z. Zaman and Interstitial Castings by Liz Lessner. Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. FF Buffalo Big Print (78 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 716-884-1777, buffalobigprint.
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Meanwhile, Granata’s own contribution to the secret data file is encoded on a half dozen or so flash drives neatly arrayed in a vitrine, like a museum exhibit. Containing, she reveals in flyer copy, “data sets and models…trained for various future scenarios” in connection with the anticipated AI takeover and likely mortal offensive against humans. The artist has also created an authentic AI assistant, Evie, on the model of Alexa and Siri, but unlike Alexa and Siri, with a modicum sense of irony. Or maybe just mischief. An exhibit component in the Squeaky Wheel front window on Main Street—you can listen in from the street, or sidewalk—features a conversation among the three ladies. Basically Evie getting Alexa and Siri talking to each other. (This does not always go smoothly. Alexa and Siri get along pretty well, but are probably never going to be good friends.) Mark Zuckerberg makes a cameo appearance, as stand-in for the rest of the bad guys. A segment of his smirky testimony before the Senate committee. Senator Orrin Hatch: “ You said that Facebook would always be free. Is that still your objective?” Mark Zuckerberg: “Senator, yes. There will always be a version of Facebook that is free…We believe we need to offer a service that everyone can afford. And we’re committed to doing that.” Hatch: “So, how do you sustain a business model in which users don’t pay for your service?” Zuckerberg: “We run ads.” P Not the whole story, of course. Facebook sells ads, but also sells data on Facebook users. Nor has the company been overly fastidious— as we have learned to our sorrow—about where or to whom it sells the data, or for what purpose.
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com): Vessels. Ryan Hoerner (Cryptic Crayon) debuts his latest melted-crayoncreations: from landscapes to outer space. Opening reception Fri, Aug 3, 6-9pm. On view through Aug 31. Mon-Fri 9am-5:30pm. Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology (1221 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 259-1680, buffaloartstechcenter.org): COWABLAMMO! by Taramarie Mitravich. Opening Sat, Aug 4, 6-10pm. Mon-Fri 10am-3pm. Buffalo & Erie County Central Library (1 Lafayette Square, Buffalo, NY 14203, 858-8900, buffalolib.org): Buffalo Never Fails: The Queen City & WWI, 100th Anniversary of America’s Entry into WWI, on second floor. Building Buffalo: Buildings from Books, Books from Buildings, in the Grosvenor Rare Book Room. Catalogue available for purchase. Mon-Sat 8:30am-6pm, Sun 12-5pm.Tue-Fri 10am-5pm, Sat 10am-2pm, Fourth Fridays till 8pm. Burchfield Penney Art Center (1300 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 878-6011, burchfieldpenney.org): Messages/Visual Platform, through Jul 29; Philip Koch: Time Travel in the Burchfield Archives, through July 29; Merton & Lax: Image and Word, through August 26; Suddenly I Awoke: The Dream Journals of Charles E. Burchfield, through July 29; Cargo, Way-Points, and Tales of the Erie Canal, through Jul 29. Wright, Roycroft, Stickley and Roehlfs: Defining the Buffalo Arts and Crafts Aesthetic, through November 26. Under Cover: objects with lids from the
permanent collection, through Apr 29. M & T Second Friday event (second Friday of every month). 10am-5pm & Sun 1-5pm. Admission $5-$10, children 10 and under free. FF Caffeology Buffalo (23 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY, 14201): Detail Distilled, First Friday opening by Quincy Koczka Canvas Salon & Gallery (9520 Main Street STE 400, Clarence, NY 14031, 716-320-5867): Casey Okonczak, through Sep 2018. The Cass Project (500 Seneca Street, Buffalo, NY 14204, thecassproject.org): Jack Edson, Where These Dreams Go. On view through Aug 24. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Castellani Art Museum (5795 Lewiston Road, Niagara University, NY 14109, 286-8200, castellaniartmuseum.org): Think Big: The Artists of Autism Services, through Jan 14, 2019. Writing on the Wall, text-based works from the collection, through July 29; The Lure of Niagara: Highlights From the Charles Rand Penney Historical Niagara Falls Print Collection, through Sep 9; Of Their Time: Hudson River School to Postwar Modernism, through Dec 31, 2019. Tue-Sat 11am-5pm, Sun 1-5pm. CEPA (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 856-2717, cepagallery.org): COMING HOME: Reentry After Incarceration, Errol Daniels photography. Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 12-4pm. Dana Tillou Fine Arts (1478 Hertel Avenue Buffalo, NY 14216, 716-854-5285, danatilloufinearts.com): Wed-Fri 10:30am5pm, Sat 10:30am-4pm.
GALLERIES ART FF Eleven Twenty Projects (1120 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14209, 882-8100, eleventwentyprojects.com): FLATSITTER: Goat Mountain Revival. On view Aug 3-18. Unveiling/Closing Reception: Thu, Aug 16, 5-9pm. RSVP at rsvp. flatsitter.com. Tue-Fri, 10am-4pm, or by appointment. FF El Museo (91 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 464-4692, elmuseobuffalo.org): Members’ Exhibition cake reception, Fri Aug 3, 6-9pm. Wed-Sat 12-6pm Enjoy the Journey Art Gallery (1168 Orchard Park Road, West Seneca, NY 14224, 675-0204, etjgallery.com): Tue & Wed 11-6pm, Thu & Fri 2-6pm, Sat 11-4pm. Expo 68 (4545 Transit Road, Amherst, NY 14221, near JCP, Eastern Hills Mall): Arrivals & Departures, works by Barbara Mink. Opening reception Sat, Aug 4, 5-8pm. On view through Sep 6. Gallery hours: Tue-Fri 12-8pm, Sat 10-8pm, Sun 12-5pm. FF GCR Recording Studio (564 Franklin Street, Buffalo, NY 14201): The Continental and Beyond: Underground Buffalo Rock Posters. Opening with Fems Fatale Fri, August 3, 6-10pm. GO ART! (201 East Main Street, Batavia, NY 14020): Peru Children by Daniel Cotrina Rowe, Jun 14-Aug 4; UNWORLDLY Members’ Challenge Show on view through Sep 8. Framed by Lynn Kang, Jul 12- Sep 8. Thu-Fri 11am-7pm, Sat 11am-4pm, Second Sun 11am-2pm. Hallwalls (341 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, 854-1694, hallwalls.org): Hallwalls 44th Annual Members Exhibition. On view through Aug 25. Tue-Fri 11am-6pm, Sat 11am-2pm. The Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038). Artist also offering painting workshops. Wed & Fri, noon5pm, Thu noon-8pm, Sat 10am-3pm. Indigo Art Gallery (47 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14202, 984-9572, indigoartbuffalo.com): Especially Now: Work by Jacqueline Welch. Through Jul 28. Wed 12-6pm, Thu 12-7pm, Fri, 6-9pm Sat 12-3pm, and by appointment Sundays and Mondays.
Jewish Community Center of Greater Buffalo Bunis Family Art Gallery (2640 N Forest Road, Benderson Family Building, Amherst, NY 14068, 688-4033, jccbuffalo.org): Mon-Thu 5:30am10pm, Fri 5:30am-6pm, Sat-Sun 8am-6pm. Karpeles Manuscript Library (North Hall) (220 North St., Buffalo, NY 14201): The Young Abraham Lincoln, the drawings of Lloyd Ostendorf. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Karpeles Manuscript Museum (Porter Hall) (453 Porter Ave, Buffalo, NY 14201): Maps of the United States. Tue-Sun 11am-4pm. Main Street Gallery (515 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203): Online gallery: BSAonline.org. Meibohm Fine Arts (478 Main Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 652-0940, meibohmfinearts. com): Summer Salon: Modern Part 2 on view through Sep 1. Tue-Fri 9:30am-4pm, Sat 9am2pm. Niagara Arts and Cultural Center (1201 Pine Avenue, Niagara Falls, NY 14301, 2827530, thenacc.org): Mon-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat & Sun 12-4pm. Nichols School Gallery at the Glenn & Audrey Flickinger Performing Arts Center (1250 Amherst Street, Buffalo, NY 14216, 332-6300, nicholsschool.org/artshows): Work from the collection. Mon-Fri 8am-4pm, Closed Sat & Sun. Nina Freudenheim Gallery (140 North Street, Lenox Hotel, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-8825777, ninafreudenheimgallery.com): TueFri 10am–5pm. Norberg’s Art & Frame Shop (37 South Grove Street, East Aurora, NY 14052, 716-6523270, norbergsartandframe.com): Regional artists from the gallery collection. TueSat 10am–5pm. Harold L. Olmsted Gallery, Springville Center for the Arts (37 N. Buffalo Street, Springville, NY 14141, 716-592-9038, SpringvilleArts. org): Wed & Fri, 12-5pm. Thu 12-8pm, Sat 103pm. FF Parables Gallery & Gifts (1027 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY, parablesgalleryandgifts. com): SUMMER SCAPES, a group exhibit, on view Aug 1-31. Opening reception Fri, Aug 3, 7-9pm. Wed-Sat,12-5pm, Sun 1-5pm.
Pastry by Camille’s Maison Le Caer (1416 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, New York): Inaugural Exhibition: Mark + Olive Freeland: 100% Confectionate. On view Thu, Jun 21-Jul 26. 8am-7pm daily. FF Pausa Art House (19 Wadsworth Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 697-9069 pausaarthouse. com): illusory a solo exhibit by Laurie T. Thu, Fri & Sat 6-11pm. Live Music Thu-Sat. FF Pine Apple Company (65 Allen Street, Buffalo, NY 14201, 716-275-3648, squareup.com/ store/pine-apple-company): Another Life: Paintings by Barbara Hart, opening reception Fri, Aug 3, 7-10pm. Wed & Thu 11am-6pm, Fri & Sat 11am-11pm, Sun 10am-5pm. Project 308 Gallery (308 Oliver Street, North Tonawanda, NY 14120, 523-0068, project308gallery.com): 5th Annual Oliver Street Art Festival Presented by the Project 308 Gallery. Sat, Aug 4, 12-5pm. Tue, Thu, Fri, 1-6pm, Wed 6:30-8:30pm, Sat 12-3pm. FF Queen City Gallery (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 868-8183, queencitygallery.tripod. com): ’Art Under the Stars’ at 64 College Street feat. Sonic Wranglers // Fragrance and Juan Cosmic Energy // the Transindental Karmacist // chloroform: 6:30 — 10pm. Art by Neil Mahar, David Pierro, Candace Keegan, Chris McGee, Eileen Pleasure, Eric Evinczik, Barbara Crocker, Thomas Bittner, Susan Liebel, Barbara Lynch Johnt, John Farallo, Thomas Busch, Sherry Anne Preziuso, Tony Cappello, Michael Mulley. First Friday extended hours. Tue-Fri 11am-4pm and by appointment. FF Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14216, revolutionartgallery.com): Sonic Splendor, group show fusing the world of music and art. Opening reception Fri, Aug 3, 8-11pm. Thu 12-6pm, Fri and Sat 12-8pm. River Gallery and Gifts (83 Webster Street, North Tonawanda, 14051, riverartgalleryandgifts.com): Wed-Fri 11am-4pm Sat 11am- 5pm. Ró Home Shop (732 Elmwood Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14222, 240-9387, rohomeshop.com): Meri Stiles, Melodious Swamp. Tue-Sat 11am-6pm, Sun 11am-4pm, closed Mondays.
Rust Belt Books (415 Grant Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, 716-885-9535): Every Picture Tells a Story, photographic portraits by Richard Price, on view Aug 1-31. Opening Reception Aug 5, 2-6pm. Squeaky Wheel (617 Main Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, squeaky.org): Yvette Granata | #d8e0ea: post-cyberfeminist datum. On view through August 25th, 2018. Tue-Sat, 12pm5pm. Tue-Sat, 12pm-5pm. Stangler Fine Art (6429 West Quaker Street, Orchard Park, NY 14127, 870-1129, stanglerart.com): Mon-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 11am3pm. Closed Sundays. Starlight Studio and Art Gallery (340 Delaware Avenue, Buffalo, NY 14202, starlightstudio. org): THE GANG’S ALL HERE! Starlight Studio & Art Gallery Annual Summer Open House. Fri, Jul 13, 6-9pm. Mon-Fri 9-4pm. Sugar City (1239 Niagara Street, Buffalo, NY 14213, buffalosugarcity.org): Open by event and Fri 5:30-7:30. UB Anderson Gallery (1 Martha Jackson Place, Buffalo, NY 14214, 829-3754, ubartgalleries. org): Bracha: Pietà—Eurydice—Medusa, Bracha Ettinger, on view through Jul 29. Claire Falkenstein: Time Elements, Cravens World: The Human Aesthetic. Wed-Sat 11am5pm, Sun 1-5pm. UB Art Gallery (North Campus, Lower Art Gallery) (201 Center for the Arts, Room B45, Buffalo, NY, 14260, 645-6913, ubartgalleries.org): Tue-Fri 11am-5pm, Sat 1-5pm. Villa Maria College Paul William Beltz Family Art Gallery (240 Pine Ridge Terrace, Cheektowaga, NY 14225, 961-1833): Mon-Fri 9am6pm, Sat 10am-5pm. Western New York Book Arts Center (468 Washington Street, Buffalo, NY 14203, 348-1430, wnybookarts.org): Found Text Traces, Catherine Linder Spencer. Wed-Sat 12-6pm. To add your gallery’s information to the list, please P contact us at info@dailypublic.com
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MICHELE MELCHER’s Space Oddity is the artist’s contribution to Sonic Splendor, a group show in which artworks are inspired by iconic songs. The show opens this Friday, August 3 at Revolution Gallery (1419 Hertel Avenue), 8-11pm.
EVENTS CALENDAR Prince vs David Bowie Dance Party 8pm Mohawk Place, 47 E Mohawk St. $5
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[INFRINGEMENT] The third annual Prince vs David Bowie Dance Party happens this Thursday, August 2 at Mohawk Place. The Infringement Festival event will feature DJs Bill Page and Xotex spinning classic David Bowie and Prince songs along with live performances by local performers. Proceeds to benefit Planned Parenthood. -CP
FRIDAY AUGUST 3 Slayer 5pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $22-$99
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INFRINGEMENT FESTIVAL WEEK 2 WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 - SUNDAY AUGUST 5 VENUS VACATION
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Muggerhugger album Recommended if you like: Broken Social Scene, The Flaming Lips, Deerhoof The latest album from Buffalobased rock band Venus Vacation, formerly known as Major Arcana, is titled Muggerhugger and was released this week. With aspects of post-rock, alt rock, indie rock, and punk, sometimes all within one track, the record almost never goes where you expect it to. Case in point, the album opener, “Lighthouse,” ticks up level after level from chilled-out guitar noodling to until singer-with-onlyone-name Vivian is screaming hysterically into the mic, aided by huge, distorted guitars. The album, recorded at Mammoth Studios in Buffalo, is available for streaming on Bandcamp now.
[INFRINGEMENT] As of the publication of this paper, there are five days left of the 2018 Infringement
JUST ENDING NOW "gothic error" single Recommended if you like: Death Grips, Tyler the Creator, Shabazz Palaces
Eccentric alternative hip hop artist just ending now, a.k.a. Jeremy Jermaine Jerome, makes a comeback with a new song titled “gothic error.” The twominute-and-32-second song is a discordant, strange trip complete with wolf-like howls from Jerome, who tackles religious themes and makes references to Sling Blade. Stream the track on Soundcloud now.
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Festival. It’s not too late to cram in all of the weird, fun, whacky, and thought-provoking art that this festival has too offer. Here we provide you with a little bit of guidance by picking out our favorite events that the Buffalo Infringement Festival has to offer for its second half. The Infringement festival runs until Sunday, August 5, so we’ll pick a few events to do each day for the next five days. The rest is up to you. Get out there and explore. Wednesday, August 1 Hump day seems like the perfect time to check out some erotic poetry, and Infringement has a bunch of it. Head over to Pussywillow Gallery for the poetry event dubbed Saying Down the Law, which features an Erotic Open Mic among other poetic performances. If that’s not exactly your thing, head over to Nietzsche’s for an eclectic singer/songwriter showcase. Thursday, August 2 Weekdays get especially weird for the Infringement Festival. Our recommendation for Thursday would be to head over to the front yard of the Burchfield Penney Art Center, where they’ll be paying tribute to Blue Lazer, a.k.a. Tim Sentman, guest and host of the public access TV program The Greg Sterlace Show. The evening will begin at 4pm with a series of musical performances, culminating in a video projection tribute to the otherworldly artist. Friday, August 3 It’s finally the weekend, which means it’s time to cut loose. Start your evening by heading over to Days Park around 6pm for an outdoor freak-disco party featuring Soma Space Time Trip, DonxSlinger, DJ Bonaparte, DJ SYOTOS, and a bunch of others. From there head over to Milkie’s for a hip hop showcase or over to Mohawk Place for the annual Pipe Dragon Memorial Expo featuring a bunch of great rock bands. Saturday, August 4 If you want to find a spot and stick to it for an entire day, the Broadway Market is your place. The East Side market will host more than 20 acts ranging from prog rock bands to industrial punk bands, and a silent disco. Later, if you’re looking to dance, check out the Milkie’s electro-hop showcase, or, if you’re trying to turn up in the weirdest way possible, head to the Intergalactic Space Alien Shindig Part 2 at Nietzsche’s, but make sure you have your sci-fi-themed costume on. Sunday, August 5 Here it is: your last chance to Infringe. Make a whole day of it by starting at the Elmwood Market for Megafringe: Word on the Street, a mostly hip hop oriented daytime party featuring everyone from MC Vendetta to Jack Topht and Rodagues. There’ll also be a second, simultaneous Megafringe event down the street at Holly Farms. Then at 7pm, join Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists for the closing day parade, which will end at the Closing Ceremonies/Iffy Awards at Nietzsche’s. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
[METAL] Classic thrash metal band, Slayer, will perform this Friday, August 3 at Darien Lake. The four-piece metal band responsible for some of the most worshipped heavy metal albums of all time, such as 1986’s Reign in Blood and 1990’s Seasons in the Abyss. Their latest is 2015’s Repentless, their first record with guitarist Gary Holt, who replaced founding member Jeff Hanneman after his death in 2013. They'll be joined by Lamb of God, Anthrax, Testament, and Napalm Death. -CP
SUNDAY AUGUST 5 Bishop Gunn 7pm The 9th Ward, 341 Delaware Ave $10-$12
[BLUES] Bishop Gunn, hailing from Natchez, Mississippi is a blues-rock band on the rise. The four-piece band released their debut full length album, named after their hometown, this spring, which was produced by Casey Wasner and Mark Neill at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio. Catch Bishop Gunn at Babeville’s 9th Ward this Sunday, August 5 with support from Bruce Wojick. -TPS
MONDAY AUGUST 6 The Sword 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $20-$24
[ROCK] Though sometimes affectionately referred to as "stoner metal," the Sword's sound is something that continues to eschew categorization. It's definitely metal with all the classic underpinnings, borrowing heavily from the Sabbath template. The band's latest, Used Future, out this past March on Razor & Tie, is a groove-driven affair that merges killer riffs with a clear penchant for trippy psychedelia. In the end, it's the most accessible album the Austin-based quartet has made thus far, which has The Sword's fan base divided. Producer Tucker Martine has helped the band trim the fat, resulting in an album that preserves the band's core personality while potentially working to introduce them to a wider audience. Fret not, however, about the upcoming show at Town Ballroom on Monday, August 6: The set features plenty of tunes from past albums. They might even bust out with a T-Rex cover. -CJT
TUESDAY AUGUST 7 Chicago and REO Speedwagon 7pm Darien Lake, 9993 S Alleghany Rd $29-$129
WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 Live at Larkin: South Buffalo Night 5pm Larkin Square, 745 Seneca Street free
[ROCK] The next edition of the free Live at Larkin concert series happens this Wednesday, August 1. The night’s theme is South Buffalo Night featuring Brian Higgins & the Exchange Street Band and Crikwater. -TPS
Tank and The Bangas 7pm Town Ballroom, 681 Main St. $16-$18
[FUNK] 2017 NPR Tiny Desk Contest winners Tank and the Bangas hail from New Orleans. Their soul-funk stew incorporates elements of hip-hop and is topped off by vocals from Tarriona "Tank" Ball who first stepped out as a slam poet. Applying Ball's skill as a vocalist and wordsmith to the jazz-tinged stylings of this dexterous ensemble—Merell Burkett Jr. and Norman Spence II on keys, Joshua Johnson on drums, Jonathan Johnson on bass and Albert Allenback on sax along with co-vocalist Jelly Joseph—results in something fresh, fun and
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delightfully playful. The Tiny Desk Concert performed in the wake of their win has been viewed more than five million times, with good reason. Prepare to lighten your load when Ball and company come to Town Ballroom on Wednesday, August 1. -CJT
THURSDAY AUGUST 2 Dark Star Orchestra 5pm Canalside, 44 Prime St. $5
[TRIBUTE] Dark Star Orchestra is a well known Grateful Dead tribute band that has toured the world. Formed in 1997, the band is dedicated, almost to a fault, to recreating the “Grateful Dead concert experience.” In some cases the seven-piece band performs exact set lists from particular Dead shows; in other cases they simply cobble together a set of their favorite songs on that night. Check out Dark Star Orchestra at Canalside on Thursday, August 2. -TPS
[ROCK] REO Speedwagon began making music in the mid-1960’s, and their initial output had a harder edge than the sound casual listeners would normally associate with the name. It wasn’t until they took a tempered, soft-rock approach that they scored big, in 1980 with Hi Fidelity, which began a string of radio hits that kept them in the Top 40 through most of the decade. Hi Fidelity has sold a staggering 10 million copies. For the last decade or so, REO has teamed up for successful summer runs with Pat Benatar, Styx, Tesla and others, reasserting themselves as a staple on the summer package circuit. And this isn’t the first time they’ve teamed up with Chicago, another band that scored big with a softer sound in the 1980’s. This year, Chicago is dividing their set into three parts, beginning with their “Ballet for a Girl in Buchannon” suite, followed by the remainder of Chicago II (from which “… Buchannon” is taken), and then a generous set of hits. REO will precede them with a hitpacked dozen song set that leaves no room for filler. Both bands do contain original members: Robert Lamm, Jimmy Pankow and Lee Loughnane for Chicago and Neal Doughty
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NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER GRAND OPENING WEDNESDAY AUGUST 1 5PM / NATIONAL COMEDY CENTER, 203 WEST 2ND STREET / VARIES BY EVENT [COMEDY] When the National Comedy Center officially opens its doors on Wednesday, August 1 in Jamestown, it will represent the posthumous fulfillment of comedy great Lucille Ball’s desire for a memorial in her hometown: not a street name, not a statue, but an institution dedicated to the art of comedy, its history, its present, and its future. Offering more than 50 interactive exhibits in 37,000 square feet of space, it will be the first nonprofit cultural institution of its kind in the country. But the center comprises more than just exhibits—George Carlin’s sketch notes, Lenny Bruce’s trench coat, memorabilia and recordings from the likes of Phylils Diller, Bob Hope, Jack Paar, Dave Chappelle, Joan Rivers, and virtually any comic legend you can name, past or contemporary. It’s also a performance center that will showcase both A-list and emerging talent. The lineup for the inaugural Lucille Ball Comedy Festival, which runs from Wednesday, August 1 through Sunday, August 5, is heavy on the A-list: Among the 40 events scheduled for the festival will be appearances by Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, Dan Ackroyd, Laraine Newman, Lewis Black, and Fran Drescher, among others. It’s a remarkable kickoff to the newest star in Western New York’s glowing constellation of cultural amenities. Visit comedycenter.org for a full lineup of events and exhibits, for tickets, and to read about future programming. -THE PUBLIC STAFF
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DESCENDENTS THURSDAY AUGUST 2 7PM / BUFFALO RIVERWORKS, 359 GANSON ST. / $32 [PUNK] It’s not crazy to argue that the Descendents were the prototypical pop punk band. And
it’s not a bad thing that they, at least in part, guided punk’s serious anti-authoritarianism toward fart jokes and girls. If it weren’t for the Descendents, we probably wouldn’t have bands like NoFX, Face to Face, Green Day, Weezer, or Blink 182 (whose drummer, Travis Barker, has a version of the Descendents iconic Milo logo tattooed on his leg). For someone like me, who was too young to appreciate the Descendents in the 1980s and 1990s, it was the appreciation and respect of the Descendents from these usually irreverent bands that made me go out and buy their records like Milo Goes to College and Everything Sucks (on CD). One of those two albums, Everything Sucks, which I personally consider a classic, came after the band’s first breakup—there have been four break ups and five reformations over the years—a testament to the band’s staying power. Throughout all of those breakups, the band has maintained the same lineup since 1986, and drummer Bill Stevenson has been in the band since their formation in 1978 in Manhattan Beach California. Catch that line up at Buffalo RiverWorks on Friday, August 3 with a Wilhelm Scream and Pavers, featuring Scott Reynolds from All. -CORY PERLA
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for REO. Kevin Cronin, REO’s best known lead vocalist, is still in the band – but contrary to popular belief, he isn’t an original member. Tuesday, August 7 at Darien Lake. -CJT
Summer Concert Series: The Skiffle Minstrels 7pm Bidwell Park, Elmwood @ Bidwell free
[FUN] The penultimate concert in the Elmwood Village Association’s Summer Concert series happens this Tuesday, August 7. The concert will feature six-piece western swing dance and the Skiffle Minstrels, who will deliver an upbeat mix of country jazz and blues to the crowd assembled at the corner of Elmwood
and Bidwell Parkway. Pack up the kids, a couple of folding chairs, and head over to the free P outdoor concert on Tuesday. -TPS
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(ALL DAY) / ALLENTOWN, ALLEN ST. AT ELMWOOD AVE. [VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS] If you’re one of those who thinks the
Allentown Art Festival should be renamed the Allentown Craft and Fried Dough Festival, or if you openly loathe the slow transformation of Allentown from a bohemian-friendly neighborhood to one that now markets $2,000 apartments in a “cultural” neighborhood, it’s time to infringe that shit this Friday, because the Allentown-centered open studio event known as First Friday is running in confluence with an
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explosion of Infringement Festival events. This is your Allentown. You won’t be able to catch it all, and we won’t be able to tell you about it all
of new gallery shows at Pine Apple Company, El Museo, Pausa Art
here, just take heart that if you land on Allen between Wadsworth and
House, Caffèology. At GCR Recording Studio: at 564 Franklin, a
North Pearl, follow your ears, eyes, and nose. Starting at 5pm, shops,
show of historical underground Buffalo rock posters and fliers hosted by a
restaurants, galleries will have music, art shows, and on the street there’ll
live music recording with Fems Fatale. Hang out on Days Park, erm,
be buskers, the roving Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists.
we mean “Disco Park” with DJ-ed rhythms programmed 5-10pm. There’s
Inside Giacobbi’s, David Adamczyk‘s Sound Strategy.
something for everyone and nothing for anyone all at the same time! Have
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11PM / TBA / $15 [ELECTRONIC/DANCE] DJ duo and roommates, Brian Piñeyro— who goes by a half a dozen aliases including DJ Wey, DJ Python, and Deejay Xanax— and Will DiMaggio are in line for the next Strange Allure party. The duo, known together as Sweet n Low, dip into otherworldly house and luminescent techno among other things during their fairly eclectic DJ sets. Piñeyro’s many pseudonyms are not just some obscurative gesture, but represent his many musical interests as a DJ— from reggaeton (DJ Python) to breakbeat (Deejay Xanax). On the other end of the spectrum is the more focused Will DiMaggio, who broke out earlier this year with his debut album, At Ease. The eight-track album, released on Future Times, is a perfect, if not slightly off beat, house music record for the summer—incorporating elements of jazz and hip hop to create a bottomlessly deep house vibe. Funky low-key guitars, plump basslines, and bits of soulful vocals permeate the record. These two are relatively new to the house music scene, but At Ease is an exciting
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great introduction that shows lots of potential. Catch the duo New York City-based duo at the next Strange Allure party, this Saturday, August 4, which will also come with sets from DJ Nasor and Peace Dept. The party is, as usual, set up at an undisclosed location. Location details will be released the day of the show via email for ticket holders and email subscribers. For tickets, ask around. Limited tickets available at door. -CORY PERLA
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5PM / ARTPARK, 450 SOUTH 4TH ST. / $17-$22 [ROCK] Ann Wilson built her career belting out tunes that have become
etched on our collective consciousness thanks, in large part, to Classic Rock Radio. As the mighty-voiced front woman of Heart, tunes like “Barracuda” and “Magic Man” are now in their fifth decade of regular airplay. But for the last two years, Wilson has been experimenting with a solo career—something she’d been reluctant to do in prior times. Until now, her only recorded solo material came in the form of 2007’s
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Hope and Glory, a treatise on themes of war and peace told mostly through cherry-picked cover choices. Rather than touring the album on her own, Wilson decided to include a few numbers on the set list for the ensuing Heart tour back then. But now, on the eve of releasing a full-length followup to Hope and Glory entitled IMMORTAL, out September 14 on BMG, Wilson is sharing the stage with Brit guitar hero (and former Yardbird) Jeff Beck for the Stars Align Tour, which comes to Artpark on Tuesday, August 7. The concept behind IMMORTAL is in choosing songs written or performed by artists that have departed, including Bowie, Chris Cornell and Tom Petty, and Wilson’s set for these summer dates blends choices from the upcoming album with a couple of tunes she’s been singing with her band, the Ann Wilson Thing, for the past two years, plus maybe one or two Heart selections. Meanwhile, two-
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time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Jeff Beck was ranked #5 in
Rolling Stone magazine’s “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” list, and at 74, he still tours long and hard. Although he released a new album in 2016, Loud Hailer, his set will focus on covers culled from far and wide, including tunes by Hendrix, The Beatles, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Stevie Wonder. Between the two, Wilson and Beck are offering a skilled stroll through the annals of rock and roll, delivered by a pair of industry giants that somehow still seem like underdogs. Especially for the 40+ crowd, this is not to be missed. -CHRISTOPHER JOHN TREACY
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10 INFRINGEMENT FESTIVAL ARTISTS BY CORY PERLA
JOSHUA MILLER The art of Joshua Miller jumps off of the page and out of the frame. At this year’s Infringement Festival you can see Miller’s artwork, what he calls 2D taxidermy, on display at Grindhaus Coffee. His version of taxidermy doesn’t involve actual animals, but fantasmic versions of pelicans, iguanas, rhinos, and goats that seem almost alive—and maybe even judging you—in their colorful, bombastic frames.
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You’ll recognize My Rap Name is Alex by what he calls his mobile laboratory—a table covered in a universe of keyboards, keypads, microphones, and other musical gadgets. His outsider hip hop style sometimes takes on a political or humorous angle and spreads his platform of radical peace, love, tolerance, and justice. He’s still got four shows to go, too, but our recommendation is the Intergalactic Space Alien Shindig Part 1 at Nietzsche’s on Friday, August 3.
This artist has a Infringement Festival show titled Distorted Buffalo, which is a photo exhibit focused turning Buffalo’s magnificent architecture into surreal, otherworldly film images. The images are completely created in-camera, sometimes double exposed to create strange, haunting, and beautiful photo collages. See Distorted Buffalo at Spot Coffee on Hertel for the remainder of the festival.
HOOKED ON CASIOPHONICS These folks are Infringement Festival veterans—if you’ve wandered the festival over the last few years, you’ve probably run into their set, either on purpose or by luck. Members Pamela “Pamazon” Swarts and Cordell “RockNutz” Brooks—and usually a bunch of friends—put on an off-the-wall hip hop EDM show that’ll get crowds in even the smallest venue up and dancing.
D REAL MCCOY D Real McCoy is hip hop artist, educator, and mentor Da’Von McCune. His clubby hip hop style comes with a dose of positivity, fun, and some life lessons, too. The evidence? Last year he and students at the Buffalo Center for Arts and Technology created a fun video tribute to Michelle Obama, which McCune wrote and helped direct. You can catch McCune Wednesday, August 1 at the Gypsy Parlor.
CHESTER COPPERPOT You’ll get a little bit of everything from Chester Copperpot. The three-piece punk and ska band from Buffalo. From blast beat punk drumming to wall-of-guitar breakdowns, they have no trouble filling a room with their energy and sound. Check out their record So…We’re Still Here if you want a taste of their altpunk style then go see them at the Tudor Lounge on Thursday, August 2.
CAR STORIES This is kind of how the whole thing started. Car Stories is not an artist but an interactive theater performance. As the story goes, the show started as part of the Fringe Festival in Montreal but were eventually booted because “Fringe Fest chose money over art.” The Car Stories creators, Donovan King and Jason C. McLean, took this as a cue to start an anti-Fringe Festival, or, as it’s known now, the Infringement Festival, which made its way from Toronto to Buffalo via Subversive Theatre’s Kurt Schneiderman. The rest is history, but Car Stories isn’t. You can still catch the show this Saturday and Sunday outside of Nietzsche’s. Go to the Infringement Festival website to book a spot, or just show up and get in line.
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BRASS PRO AND THE WATERFRONT REVIVALISTS
LITTLE CAKE
Brass Pro and the Waterfront Revivalists are a roaming party. They kicked off the Infringement Festival with a parade to the Opening Ceremonies and they’ll help put it to bed with a parade leading to the Closing Ceremonies. In between, you’ll probably find them busking all over the city—specifically in Allentown on Friday evening.
It’s hard to say exactly what you’ll get from Little Cake. Maybe some a cappella vocals from songwriter Ana Vafai, followed by an emotional guitar tune about flowers. Or something goofier or ironic—like having a band called Little Cake but making your Facebook avatar a picture of a muffin. At the end of the day, Little Cake will make you feel good, laugh, and dance. Catch Little Cake at Nietzsche’s for the Closing Ceremonies.
A whole lot of people work hard to make this festival happen each year. It’s almost a year-round job for them and it’s exhausting, frustrating, and sometimes they feel like they want to quit. But it’s also fun and rewarding for them to see the thing that they create basically from scratch each year come to fruition all over the city on such a large scale. If you’ve been thinking about volunteering, just do it next year. If you want to get involved more deeply, something tells me they’d love you for it. The organization meets the first Monday of each month at the Allentown Association, so P check one out if you’re interested.
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AH, YOUTH EIGHTH GRADE BY GEORGE SAX YOU MAY FIND yourself laughing and wincing almost simultaneously at Bo Burnham’s Eighth Grade. Both I and the young woman representing the movie’s publicist had a similar experience at the screening I attended. (Actually, I winced, she “cringed.” We were both amused.)
Burnham has portrayed his young protagonist, 13-year-old Kayla Day (Elsie Fisher), in such a sympathetically humorous, perceptive way, her lonely, anxious plight and youthful foibles provoke a sometimes uneasy mixed response. This is no by-thebook Hollywood teen comedy (and it’s on another aesthetic continent from the recent cutesy youth romcom, Love, Simon). When we meet Kayla she’s in the last weeks of her middle school career, looking forward apprehensively to high school. While she’s done well enough academically, socially she’s a bust, despite her ineffectual coping and outreach efforts. Burnham’s frequently trenchant, if just as frequently low-key depiction of her efforts and failures is the central element in the comedy, as well as the source of our intertwined smiles of recognition and uneasiness. When the writer-director nails his material—and he often does—the movie produces both reactions. Our intro to Kayla comes in the very first moments of Eighth Grade, as she records one of her little life-lessons video blogs for fellow early adolescents. This one is on “Being Yourself,” which “can be hard” she acknowledges in her slightly awkward attempt at an informal style. Self-referentially, she tells her audience she can seem quiet but assures them that “I’m really funny, cool and talkative.” This is so at variance with her life, another source of the twinned comedy and discomfort. At school, she seems all but friendless, not disliked, mostly just ignored, even though she participates. (She bangs the cymbals in the school orchestra.) There’s a mean-girl subtheme, but Kayla’s not bullied, she’s just dismissed by rich-kid Kennedy (Catherine Oliviere), who grudgingly invites her to a pool party
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at her mother’s insistence. The pool party scene is dead-on acute,
moving insights, is a little uneven. He’s loaded his dice by making
goofy and boisterous, while resonating the alienating oppressive
Kayla so very isolated without really justifying this, and he wasn’t
loneliness of being odd-person out at a party.
above giving vent to a sentimental urge late in the movie.
Kayla, it transpires, hasn’t the common gift of easy, aimless
On the other hand, he’s guided, coaxed and permitted some
connection, a lack she seems to share with her single father, Mark ( Josh Hamilton). At supper, he tries to make contact with clumsy, stilted friendliness, as his bored, impatient and uncomfortable daughter hides behind her phone—which she’s almost never without, even, or especially, in bed at night. The implicit father-daughter personality correspondence is obvious. The 20-something Burnham almost resembles a contemporary young Orson Welles. He’s a writer, actor, musician and comic, but he’s not now Welles’ equal in skill. His movie, for all its funny,
wonderful performances, most especially his 13-year-old lead. Fisher is so good she brings to mind that old cliché about an actor who doesn’t seem to be really acting. Fisher is uncannily good. And Hamilton handles a funny, but occasionally inconsistent part with aplomb. The whole cast is persuasively adept. There’s also a bemusing subtext in Eighth Grade: The way social media has empowered adolescents for good and maybe ill. This movie seems to show Kayla’s situation is both alleviated and intensified by the internet.
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PARKSIDE NEAR ROBIE: 1BD apt, all utilities included. $800. 386-344-5209.
ROOM FOR RENT $400 Per Mo. Incl. util./kitchen privileges Commonwealth off Hertel, 390-7543.
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BIDWELL-ELMWOOD: 2nd floor 2 BR. No smokers, no pets. Utilities included. $950. 885-5835.
ELMWOOD VILLAGE, COLONIAL CIRCLE: Lafayette-Livingston. 2 BR. Hardwood floors, no pets or smoking. Must see. $1150 includes all utilities. 716-912-2906.
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BUFFALO STATE AREA: 3BR single family home $950-1200 + utilities. Call 415-385-1438.
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ELMWOOD VILLAGE: Lancaster, lg bright 2BD upper, hrdwd flrs, laundry, parking. $1200 incl all. 884-0353.
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LINWOOD: Super 3 bedroom 2 bath w/2 car garage. $1200 total ($400 per 3 roommates). 884-2871. ELMWOOD VILLAGE Elmwood@ Auburn upper 1 bdr. Stove, refrigerator. Front porch. No pets. Must see. Call 864-9595. ---------------------------------------------------
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ELMWOOD VILLAGE 2 bedroom upper, newly renovated, front porch, appliances, laundry. $895 inc water. Must see. Call 913-2736.
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SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK, COUNTY OF ERIE
for the Irish Classical Theatre Company’s 2018-2019 Season
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Solomon and Solomon, P.C.
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50 Close
26 Sawyer’s friend
NANCY HEIDINGER
1 “There ___ there there” (Gertrude Stein comment on Oakland)
52 Singer-songwriter Rita with the middle name SahatÁiu
27 “Decorates” a house on Halloween, perhaps
DOUG CROWELL
5 Go to the mat, slangily
ALEJANDRO GUTIERREZ
11 Dog breeders’ org.
53 Grocery sign phrase that’s grammatically questionable
29 Irish-born children’s book author Colfer
KRISTEN BOJKO
14 Unknown, as a citation (abbr.)
55 Steve of “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2”
31 El ___, Texas
KRISTEN BECKER
15 Stella ___ (Belgian beer)
56 Elan
CHRIS GALLANT
16 ___ Locks (Sault Ste. Marie waterway)
57 ___ bag
EKREM SERDAR
17 Amorphous amounts
MOLLIE RYDZYSNKI
18 “Oh, crud!”
59 New Orleans-to-Miami dir.
19 It looks like 2 in binary
60 Equilibrium situations
20 Tootsie Roll Pop biter, in a classic ad
61 1990s point-and-click puzzle game
COLLEEN CHAHAL
HARPER BISHOP, JENNIFER CONNOR
DOT KELLY
NISSA MORIN
ROSS SCHULTZ
PETER SMITH
CHARLES VON SIMSON
BROOKE MECKLER
KEVIN PURDY
JOSHUA USEN
PETER SMITH
HOLLY GRAHAM
22 Word after blessed or catered
MARK GOLDEN
24 “Hush!”
SCOTT MECKLER JESSICA NEUBAUER
COLLEEN KENNEDY
SUZANNE STARR
BOB LAVALLEE
RACHEL CHROSTOWSKI
JOSEPH VU
FOUNDLINGS PRESS
TJ VITELLO
STEPHANIE PERRY
MINDYJO ROSSO
ROB GALBRAITH
DAVID SHEFFIELD
JACQUELINE TRACE
MATTHEW NAGOWSKI
VILONA TRACHTENBERG
USMAN HAQ
KARA
CELIA WHITE
NAOMI LOWINGER
STEVE
DANIEL BRADY
HEATHER GRING
JOANNA EVAN JAMES MARCIE MCNALLIE KARA
JEN KAMINSKY
JAMES LENKER
ROB MROWKA
BRENDAN MCCAFFERTY
CORY MUSCATO
AMBER JOHN (EXTRA LOVE)
21 Chops into cubes
26 Ornate 27 Bengal beast 28 Upper limit
DOWN 1 Foe of Othello 2 Part-time Arizona resident, perhaps 3 Xenon, e.g. 4 Put-___ (shams)
35 Jim Carrey title role, with “The” 36 Some light beers 37 “Cakes and ___” (W. Somerset Maugham book) 38 Intensely eager 40 Ewe in the movie “Babe” 41 Pioneering video game systems 42 Generic 44 Back burner location
30 Milan-based fashion label
5 Ulnae’s neighbors
46 “Westworld” character ___ Hughes
6 “It’s ___ to the finish”
31 Got a hold of, maybe
47 Mr. Potato Head pieces
32 1960s campus protest gp. restarted in 2006
7 Take advantage of room, or demonstrate what four themed Down answers do?
49 Seaweed plant
33 Sounding like a complete ass?
8 Beau and Jeff, to Lloyd Bridges
35 Tax pro
9 Number in a Roman pickup?
38 Bluegrass artist Krauss 39 Message on a tablet, maybe? 41 “And Still I Rise” poet 43 Shelve indefinitely 44 Larry, e.g.
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58 Go around
34 Provoke
10 She played one of the “Golden Girls”
51 Body shop challenge 54 Spoil 55 Withdrawal site LAST WEEK’S ANSWERS
11 Shipboard direction 12 Chekov portrayer on “Star Trek” 13 “See next page” abbr.
45 Vacation vehicles
21 Purchases designed to last a long time
48 Uniform preceder?
23 Null’s companion
49 Metallic mix
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